"Sea of Life" Character Introduction Colonel (Jiang Zhengnan)
He used to be a major battalion commander of the Kuomintang army. His life has experienced ups and downs, but he has also had glory. As a countryman, the colonel actually became a military doctor by virtue of his intelligence after joining the army; As an agent, lurking in the Japanese-occupied area, resourceful; As a military doctor, he saved countless lives. However, he lived in the shadow of depression for a long time because of that indelible tattoo scar.
grandpa
The prestigious old man in the village is also the guardian of this family. He couldn't stand his son's gossip, so he chose to report the colonel, which eventually led to the colonel's most painful experience, and also triggered the villagers' resentment against him, and finally hanged himself in regret and extreme pain.
father
The colonel's fans and friends have been defending him. He attaches great importance to feelings and righteousness, but it also attracts countless rumors. Because grandpa's informer gave him the notoriety of being in prison, he became more reticent from then on.
Xiaoxiazi
His father is really blind, and his mother ran away with someone else. Lack of discipline since childhood, tortured the colonel and found his tattoo. The colonel, who was afraid of leaking secrets, cut his tongue and broke his hand. Later, when the colonel was arrested, he publicly asked him to unbutton his pants and look at the tattoo on his stomach, which finally drove him crazy.
Appreciation of the Sea of Life The Sea of Life revolves around a colonel with many mysteries, takes the village as the performance stage, tells the life entanglements between many villagers and the colonel, and depicts the colonel's life struggling in the times. Through multi-viewpoint, fragmented and nonlinear narrative, the book gives many characters in the novel the right to tell stories, and uses personalized and vivid language to create a new legend with mortal flavor and close connection with secular life, restoring the nature and common sense of the protagonist as a human being.
If we look at the sea of life according to the causes of the tragedy, we will find that it was a tragedy of fate at first, but it did not appear in the form of the ancient Greek Oracle. No matter how the hero struggles with fate, he can't escape the doomed tragedy. It is a traditional fatalism in China, and it is used to taking little people as the leading role. "It is carried out under the overall framework of the integration of heaven and man. People are not fighting against fate, but sighing helplessly."
Specifically, it can be interpreted as the fatalistic tragedy that the protagonist can't integrate into ordinary people's society after the return; Secondly, the tragedy of the colonel is also related to the social and historical background of fanaticism and disorder, as well as his bold and timid character.
Judging from the repeated emphasis on "fate" in the novel, the author himself seems to be more inclined to understand it as a tragedy of fate, but in fact, the cause of the heroic tragedy in "Field of Life and Death" can be said to be a mixture of fate, personality and social and historical environment. If one is missing, it will not lead the colonel to the final insanity.
The colonel who "will be a hero on the battlefield sooner or later" has gone to tragedy since he left the battlefield. Although he once found a delicate balance in Shuangjia Village, he allowed everyone to make up various legends for his crotch with relish and acquiesced in the nickname "eunuch" behind him. Even if the child is naughty and scolds his eunuch to his face, he will ignore it most of the time. Only in this way can the colonel become a harmless and castrated "hero" image. But this balance is short-lived after all. When an era of turmoil and disorder becomes possible, colonels are always the first to fall.
As one of Mai Jia's "Hometown Trilogy", The Sea of Life took eight years and was finally published after five years of polishing. Different from previous works, this story breaks away from the previously known theme of "spy war" and sets the background in hometown, which means that Mai Jia believes that a writer will write a book related to his hometown all his life, which is not only a commemoration of his childhood, but also a reconciliation with his hometown.
The title "Sea of Life" is taken from Minnan dialect, which means that life is as changeable and ups and downs as the sea, but you still have to live well. Mai Jia's explanation of this word is: "Since everyone can't escape, it is better to fall in love with life.
The story of "Sea of Life" actually originated from a small incident when Mai was a child. That year, Mai Jiacai was 1 1 years old. One afternoon, he went to work in the production team with his classmates and saw an old man picking dung in the distance. The old man looks very poor. An older classmate told Mai Jia: "Don't look at that man's life now, he has actually been to the battlefield. Moreover, when he was fighting ... the most important place for a man was injured. " This man has been living in Mai's heart. After many years, Mai Jia finally wrote him into a novel.
Mai Jia, 1964, a native of Fuyang, Zhejiang, is introduced by the author of life in the sea. 1986 began to write, with novels such as Decryption, Plot Against, and Wind. In 2008, plot against was awarded the 7th Mao Dun Literature Prize. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages. Among them, Decryption and Assassination were selected as Penguin Classics. In 20 14, Decryption was rated as "Top Ten Novels of the Year in the World" by The Economist, as the Best Book Award by Kara in 20 15, and as "Top 20 Spy Novels in Global History" by The Daily Telegraph in 20 17.